Q&A with Baking Show Winner Vallery Lomas about Persistence

“Punched down, dough always rises again.”

Vallery Lomas started a food blog in 2009 during her final year of law school, to document her baking. She had studied abroad in France as a college student and went back after graduation. There she discovered macarons. She sold them on weekends but gave up her business to be a young attorney.